Born
August 20th, 1948
Key Tracks
"Dazed and Confused," "Immigrant Song," "Sea of Love"
Influenced
David Lee Roth, Freddie Mercury, Tori Amos, Axl Rose
As a jailbait in the English Midlands, Robert Plant was bedeviled with the rawest American blues. "When I saw Sleepy John Estes and heard that articulation — allotment pain, allotment adorable — I went, 'I wish that voice,' " Plant told Rolling Stone in 2006. Somehow, he got that voice, and more: The unearthly bark he unleashed with Led Zeppelin was a bluesman beyond with a Viking deity. Singing like a babe never seemed so masculine, and endless hard-rock singers would atom their articulate cords extensive for the addendum Plant acquired by birthright. "His articulation is picturesque," says assistant Alison Krauss. "It sounds so new and so old at the aforementioned time, with this crazy European abstruseness to it."
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